Spaces only on Primary monitor

Hey,
Is it possible the enable Spaces only on the Primary monitor.
I have a second monitor specially for Itunes. No matter what happens... I dont want the second monitor to change a bit. It HAS to give me Itunes... permanently.
So I was hopping to disable spaces on the secondary monitor.... Is this possible ?
Thanks Already... !

Thank you very much. This works perfectly.
Thanks!

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 270.41.19 ([email protected]) Mon May 16 23:52:12 PDT 2011
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ModelName "Unknown"
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VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
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VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
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Identifier "Device1"
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VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
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Last edited by Median (2011-06-03 15:33:07)

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